JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Aviva Chomsky, a historian, author, and activist whose work challenges dominant narratives about immigration, labor, and ...

Who came to Cleveland and changed it forever? On June 13, Greg Deegan, executive director of Teaching Cleveland, will answer this question in a lecture titled, “The History of Immigration and ...

When Salvatore Pugliese disembarked the S.S. America at Ellis Island after two weeks at sea, an immigration officer grilled the 17-year-old tailor. Was he a polygamist? An anarchist? Did he advocate ...

Chicago has certainly been here before. The more than 36,000 migrants that have arrived to Chicago over the past year-and-a-half are just some of the latest to immigrate to a city that, over a century ...

Pt. I. Colonial America. Overseas migration from Europe ; English immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England ; Slavery and immigrants from Africa ; Other Europeans in Colonial America ...

In 1876, France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a monument to republican liberty. Conceived by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye and built by artist Frédéric Auguste ...

Ray Suarez discusses his new book "We Are Home." Immigration continues to be a primary concern with U.S. voters. Veteran broadcaster Ray Suarez looks at the issue in depth in his latest book “We Are ...

BRATTLEBORO — In 1882 Brattleboro-born Richard Morris Hunt was chosen to design a gigantic pedestal to support the Statue of Liberty. The statue was a gift from France to the United States. The ...

100 years ago today, America committed its biggest immigration blunder when President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act. As we commemorate the anniversary, most of the conversation ...

Massive migration has been one of the central forces shaping human history. Long before modern borders and passports, people ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...